CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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131 km from Velez Rubio to Velez Rubio, about 4 h 54 of riding. It goes by way of Tejera, Lavadero Tello V and back through Tejera. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The far north of Almería province is not the desert most people imagine. Around Vélez-Blanco and María the land rises into the Sierra de María-Los Vélez Natural Park, a range of limestone peaks with pine and holm oak forest, high plains of cereal and almond and villages that can see snow in winter. Los Paradores is one of the rock art sites in this area, part of the UNESCO listing of the Mediterranean Iberian rock art, and the region holds one of the most famous painted shelters in Spain, the Cueva de los Letreros, home of the Indalo, a stick figure holding an arc over its head that has become the symbol of Almería.
Read the complete Los Paradores write-up.
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Los Paradores is where the day begins. Next is Tejera.
A tejera is a tile works, a kiln where roof tiles were baked from local clay, and the name is common across the dry south-east of Spain. The Tejera on your map is near Vélez-Blanco, about two kilometres from the village, in the country that falls away from the Sierra María towards the plain, where red soil, almond terraces and clumps of pine and juniper make up the view.
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Tejera comes up 18 km in. Next is Lavadero Tello V.
Los Vélez, in the north of Almería, is wool and almond country, and its history is one of shepherds, noblemen and Moriscos. For centuries flocks of sheep moved between the winter grazing of the lowlands and the summer pastures of the high sierras along old drove roads, and the area had a thriving wool trade. The shelter here, one of a group around Vélez-Blanco, carries prehistoric paintings, belonging to the Levantine art tradition that UNESCO recognises.
Read the complete Lavadero Tello V write-up.
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37 km in you reach Lavadero Tello V. Next is back through Tejera.
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Read the complete Tejera write-up.
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back through Tejera, late in the day. Next is Los Paradores.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Los Paradores write-up.
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Back at Los Paradores. That is the ride.
Los Paradores → Tejera is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tejera → Lavadero Tello V is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lavadero Tello V → back through Tejera is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tejera → Los Paradores is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.